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EastPack Kiwifruit Packhouse delivers Kiwifruit packing industry-leading OGR

Industry leading OGR

EastPack delivers industry leading Orchard Gate Return (OGR) year in year out and is renowned for looking after its growers through good and bad times. In fact, we’ve got the best deal in the industry!

Packing Costs – lowest in the industry

EastPack growers can earn an extra 40 cents a tray in 2012 with a 20 cents per tray reduction in packing costs for Green and Gold kiwifruit and a 20 cents cash rebate in June 2012. EastPack intends paying growers 20 cents per tray rebate in June 2012 for 2012 trays supplied. There will be no capital call on the rebate ie. 20 cents cash in your pocket. This is effectively giving a green base packing charge of $1.11 per tray – the lowest in the industry.

Quality service and technical experience

EastPack offers a wide variety of post harvest services to it growers including packing, cool storage, technical experitse, orchard development, orchard management and leasing. Our Grower Services team will work with you to help improve your orchard performance.

Leading technology and automation

EastPack has packhouses in Edgecumbe, Opotiki and Te Puke, all with purpose-built side tipping fruit sizers and the latest packing technology, including stacking and strapping robots at the Te Puke site.

Zespri™ Green, Zespri™ Gold and Class II kiwifruit are packed at all three EastPack sites.

EastPack recently handled 175,000 trays of organic green kiwifruit and is committed to providing an environment and service to its clients that incorporates all protocols and principles of BIO-GRO.

In the 2011 season, 495 orchards (KPINs) from Tauranga, Coromandel, Katikati, Te Puke, Whakatane/Edgecumbe, Opotiki, Waikato and the Hawke’s Bay provided 21.4 million trays of kiwifruit for export - 12.8 million trays of Zespri™ Green and 8.6 million trays of Zespri™ Gold.

Our market share growth is more than double that of the industry and our fruit loss is at or below the industry average.